I've been thinking about the same thing. It's difficult to shake the notion that you should know what you're doing. But once you do you can work much better.
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I use a knockoff staedtler (pacific arc) lead pointer and 2mm 4B leads now cos we live in the future and there's no good reason to stick the usable bit of a pencil inside a disposable bit of dead tree. One of the byproducts of this is 4b graphite dust, I threw that on big paper and brushed it around randomly, and refined the things I saw, kinda like cloud pareidolia.
I find this method WAY easier than going into art with intention anymore (not that I ever REALLY did in the first place)
More therapeutic and zen, rather than precise illustrative nonsense.
UrnSudden responds:
Bonus difficulty in pixel art, I'd imagine! That style (love your work btw, real crosshatched, almost pen-and-ink) almost necessitates deliberation. I suppose you could make a random silhouette in grey using loops and bools, and pull things out of it, but random gradation is where I feel I got the most workable stuff, in this at least, and dithered shading is where most of the pixel vibe lives, I think. So it'd end up being a more difficult balancing act.
I saw that shape in the clouds
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